No Surprise: Ashkenazi Jews Are Partly European

EDITOR’S NOTE: We knew that Jews were hybridized to some extent with Europeans already; the science just confirms it. But there are several other studies showing that, despite this hybridization (which facilitates mimicry, always useful for a parasite), Jews are still more closely related to other Jews than they are to their host populations.

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THE ORIGIN OF THE Ashkenazi Jews, who come most recently from Europe, has largely been shrouded in mystery. But a new study suggests that at least their maternal lineage may derive largely from Europe.

Though the finding may seem intuitive, it contradicts the notion that European Jews mostly descend from people who left Israel and the Middle East around 2,000 years ago. Instead, a substantial proportion of the population originates from local Europeans who converted to Judaism, said study co-author Martin Richards, an archaeogeneticist at the University of Huddersfield in England.

Tangled Legacy

Little is known about the history of Ashkenazi Jews before they were expelled from the Mediterranean and settled in what is now Poland around the 12th century. On average, all Ashkenazi Jews are genetically as closely related to each other as fourth or fifth cousins, said Dr. Harry Ostrer, a pathology, pediatrics and genetics professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and the author of “Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People” (Oxford University Press, 2012).

But depending on whether the lineage gets traced through maternal or paternal DNA or through the rest of the genome, researchers got very different answers for whether Ashkenazi originally came from Europe or the Near East.

Past research found that 50 percent to 80 percent of DNA from the Ashkenazi Y chromosome, which is used to trace the male lineage, originated in the Near East, Richards said. That supported a story wherein Jews came from Israel and largely eschewed intermarriage when they settled in Europe. [The Holy Land: 7 Amazing Archaeological Finds]

But historical documents tell a slightly different tale. Based on accounts such as those of Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, by the time of the destruction of the Second Temple in A.D. 70, as many as 6 million Jews were living in the Roman Empire, but outside Israel, mainly in Italy and Southern Europe. In contrast, only about 500,000 lived in Judea, said Ostrer, who was not involved in the new study.

Richards and his colleagues analyzed mitochondrial DNA, which is contained in the cytoplasm of the egg and passed down only from the mother, from more than 3,500 people throughout the Near East, the Caucusus and Europe, including Ashkenazi Jews.

The team found that four founders were responsible for 40 percent of Ashkenazi mitochondrial DNA, and that all of these founders originated in Europe. The majority of the remaining people could be traced to other European lineages.

All told, more than 80 percent of the maternal lineages of Ashkenazi Jews could be traced to Europe, with only a few lineages originating in the Near East.

Virtually none came from the North Caucasus, located along the border between Europe and Asia between the Black and Caspian seas.

The finding should thoroughly debunk one of the most questionable, but still tenacious, hypotheses: that most Ashkenazi Jews can trace their roots to the mysterious Khazar Kingdom that flourished during the ninth century in the region between the Byzantine Empire and the Persian Empire, Richards and Ostrer said.

The genetics suggest many of the founding Ashkenazi women were actually converts from local European populations.

“The simplest explanation was that it was mainly women who converted and they married with men who’d come from the Near East,” Richards told LiveScience.

Another possibility is that Jews actively converted both men and women among local populations at this time, although researchers would need more detailed study of paternal lineages to test that hypothesis, Richards said.

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Sometimes I wonder what percent of Jews are aware that they are exterminating us. Even among the ones directly responsible for exterminating us, I wonder if or to what extent they are aware that they are doing it, since it is in their nature to try to destroy us, even though killing the host will most likely kill the parasite as well.

I’ve often wondered what percent of the American population will not stare at you with a bewildered look if you bring up the Jewish plot to exterminate us.

The question of the Jew has probably preoccupied sentient men since beginning of time.

It may be that this “problem” is our unwillingness to accept there is something beyond our understanding or irrational;

and of not knowing who we, the hosts are.

Intellectually, to understand the Jew leads only to futility for there is nothing to understand.

They are a cloud, sometimes remote, discrete, contrasting against the blue firmament like stratus and cirrus or familiar like the cumulus: dark, foreboding and ominous or beautiful and harmless. But always a cloud. One is infatuated with their nebulous nature.

To the gardener , they are the eternal, tenacious weed. There are no good weeds but most imitate something good, a flower, vegetable or vine. No insect touches them nor ruminate searches them for there is no good in them.

They only proliferate. They have no real qualities but imitate the things around which they invade, violate and exploit and with insatiable proliferation gradually deracinate.

But others are deceived and see them as herbs and flowers and God’s chosen. They cultivate them and glorify them and are made blind to their obnoxious habits and ends.

How can one live with knowledge of this ignorance or self delusion, with which the gracious host glorifies themselves and is indifferent to our demise?

A friend in Russia, who is “atheist and godless” of a race that has suffered most from the Jew and their manifestations will without preconceived Christian polytheism nor mindless indiscrimination give the saddest testimony , “they are the enemy of life.”

Your analysis of the situation is very eloquent, Heinemann, and penetrates to the very essence of the JQ. You should start a blog if you haven’t already, or become a regular contributor here. I’d definitely read your words and musings.

Almost all Ashkenazi Jews are descendants of East Europeans who converted to Judaism. These converts never set foot in the Holy Land. The real Jews are Middle Eastern like Moroccan or Yemeni Jews. Also Ethiopian Jews.

Whether “real” Jews or “fake” Jews, they ALL present a clear danger to our people and to world peace in general. Does it matter if a real serial-killer is confined safely within a prison cell if that serial-killer has millions of disciples willing to carry out his desires in all places outside the walls and razor-wire?

Think about it deeply. I for one do not care a whit whether some are “fake” Jews and others are “real” Jews… I care ONLY that their destructive agendas are STOPPED.

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